Saturday, November 25, 2006

Dual Action Cleanse

I was just wondering if anyone else has seen this disturbing infomercial:

It stars Irwin Klee of (insert phony pseudo-scientific sounding company name here) promoting his "Colon cleansing" formula Dual Action Cleanse. It seems that every year a new Carnie/Used-Car Salesman mongrel turns up to rob some gullible old ladies in Kentucky of their pension, hawking them nonsense "formula's" promising to enhance their colon function . Last year, it was Kevin Trudeau of Natural Cures:

Among the many (un?)intentionally hilarious things he talks about are what his daughter's poop looks like.

Oh, and just in case you were contemplating taking penis enlargement pills (from Wikipedia):

"Penis enlargement pills" or ointments are commonly offered over the Internet; these, for the most part, are scams.

Analyses performed by Flora Research of California and by the University of Maryland have uncovered harmful contaminants in a number of "penis enlargement" pills. Contaminants found included mold, yeast, dangerous E. coli bacteria, pesticides, and lead. [1] Dr. Michael Donnenberg of the University of Maryland has described herbal pills marketed by Performance Marketing Ltd. as having "heavy fecal contamination", possibly from animals grazing near the plants harvested for herbal ingredients. [2] There may however be a placebo effect i.e. a psychological effect of making the user think he has a larger penis, and increasing his confidence, when there is no actual change to his penis size. [3]. Some people have also reported that such pills make them feel horny, and give them harder erections, but again, without any actual growth of the penis.